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I’m having a hard time trying to understand how Microsoft open sourcing .NET is going to help them, at least financially. I get that developers want to have the option of running on Linux, and that by doing this, they win the development community. Microsoft has a horrible history of not always choosing right over profitable.

With the status quo prior to this last week, the use of .NET on non-Windows machines meant you were a year or so behind the curve by using Mono. At least depending on what you wanted to implement – some of the asynchronous parts of the MVC framework is still out of reach, and both WPF and WCF were left entirely unimplemented.Continue reading

These same instructions can be applied to Visual Studio 2013 as well by substituting the ‘11.0’ value for ‘12.0’. For those of you using Visual Studio Express 2013 for Web, the same instructions while substituting the ‘VisualStudio’ value for ‘WDExpress’ will work.

With whatever version you are using, if you don’t want to open the Registry Editor, you can also enable it using PowerShell and the appropriate registry string like so…